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Holzminden–Scherfede railway

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Project Höxter: a new municipal cycle path between Lüchtringen and Godelheim: 3.1 km for €611,000. The municipality of Höxter has been hesitant to support the state project because the municipality would be obliged to co-finance it and the Weser cycle path already runs nearby. It would primarily
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was responsible for the maintenance of the Fürstenberg bridge. Passenger traffic ended on 2 June 1984. Freight traffic was discontinued in sections from 1984 to 2001: between Beverungen and Borgholz on 30 May 1984; between Fürstenberg and Beverungen on 31 May 1988; between Holzminden and Fürstenberg
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Meanwhile, support for a state railway prevailed in Prussia from 1879/80 and the lines of the BME were incorporated into the Prussian state railways in 1882. The Holzminden-Scherfede line was just a bit inconveniently near main lines, connected two steep lines and lay obliquely to the direction of
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had privatised its former state railways in 1870 and the BME and the BPE had acquired shares. Even before the completion of the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway in 1873, construction work began in 1872 to close the last gap in a private rail network from the
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Demolished Dalhausen-Biesberg station. The tracks have been removed and to the right is a temporary track to district road 44, which is about 10 metres away, for heavy demolition equipment. The platform is still
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Project Borgentreich: in the town of Borgentreich at Natzungen and Borgholz, 9.1 kilometers of tracks are to be lifted and the route would be paved for cyclists. The estimated cost amounts to €1.4 million.
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plans, however, the partial removal of the disused line and its conversion into a cycle path. Planned sections cover a total of 22.3 km of the former line:
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After the Second World War, the section from Holzminden to Wehrden had a final period of prosperity as the Weser bridge on the Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway at
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Project Beverungen: the section between Blankenau and Dalhausen covers 11.2 km and would be developed for approximately €1.89 million.
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The railway line is now largely in place, but except in Scherfede it is no longer connected to the other lines and is impassable. The
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and Warburg and was thus unsuitable for regional traffic. The long-distance trains ran over the line through
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route. It was frequently used until the early 1990s for the transfer of vehicles and tanks of the
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Abschied von der Schiene. Stillgelegte Bahnstrecken im Personenzugverkehr Deutschlands. 1980–1985
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Werner Borchert (1996). "Die Verbindungsbahn bei Amelunxen. Vor 50 Jahren in Betrieb genommen".
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and between Borgholz and Nörde on 31 May 1992 and between Nörde and Scherfede on 10 June 2001.
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section) have applied for a share of the state program only once for financial reasons.
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Die Strecke Scherfede – Holzminden und die Eisenbahn im Altkreis Warburg
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The towns of Warburg (the Rimbeck–Nörde section) and Willebadessen (the
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Die warte. Heimatzeitschrift für die Kreise Paderborn und Höxter.
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The line ran from the northeast to the southwest through the
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and through the Warburger Börde (the rolling country around
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benefit the Höxter district of Lüchtringen and the town of
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In Nörde the line passed under the 1105:Upper Ruhr Valley Railway from Warburg 423: 1336:Magdeburg–Halberstadt Railway Company 1199:was a 49 km long main line from 115:100 km/h (62 mph) (maximum) 1458: 1497:to allow cyclists to cross between 1474:Bahnflächenentwicklungsgesellschaft 1270:. In Wehrden it connected with the 320:North Rhine-Westphalia/Lower Saxony 13: 1304:Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company 1154:Upper Ruhr Valley Railway to Hagen 302: 230: 14: 1746: 1655: 1316:Duchy of Brunswick State Railway 1142: 1117: 1093: 1065: 1058: 1029: 1022: 1002:Kassel-Warburger Wellpappefabrik 984: 977: 937: 930: 907: 882: 881: 856: 833: 810: 787: 764: 741: 718: 688: 665: 640: 617: 593: 586: 563: 556: 532: 525: 487: 480: 422: 397: 371: 341: 301: 275: 229: 205: 180: 156: 1302:The route was developed by the 1094: 1066: 1023: 978: 938: 931: 526: 488: 481: 372: 1725:1876 establishments in Germany 1564: 1549: 1352:Berlin-Potsdam Railway Company 544:Solling Railway from Ottbergen 206: 1: 1715:Railway lines in Lower Saxony 1593: 1254:Track km 326.7 in August 2011 1181:Source: German railway atlas 1030: 985: 908: 857: 834: 811: 788: 765: 742: 719: 689: 666: 641: 618: 594: 564: 533: 398: 342: 276: 1720:Railway lines opened in 1876 1636:Garrelt Riepelmeier (2010). 1577:(in German). 10 January 2012 1217:Altenbeken–Kreiensen railway 1197:Holzminden–Scherfede railway 1059: 587: 19:Holzminden–Scherfede railway 7: 1681:(in German). Archived from 1348:Brunswick–Magdeburg railway 1143: 1118: 605:Solling Railway to Northeim 557: 181: 157: 71:49.2 km (30.6 mi) 10: 1751: 1356:Berlin-Potsdamer Eisenbahn 1297: 1452:British Army of the Rhine 1438:river-crossing bridge at 1221:Upper Ruhr Valley Railway 1211:) in the German state of 1151: 1136: 1129: 1111: 1102: 1087: 1077: 1052: 1043: 1016: 996: 971: 964: 924: 919: 901: 893: 875: 868: 850: 845: 827: 822: 804: 799: 781: 776: 758: 753: 735: 730: 712: 700: 682: 677: 659: 652: 634: 629: 611: 602: 580: 575: 550: 541: 519: 499: 474: 434: 416: 409: 391: 383: 365: 353: 335: 313: 295: 287: 269: 241: 223: 214: 199: 192: 174: 165: 150: 119: 111: 75: 67: 62: 52: 47: 36: 28: 23: 18: 1518: 1230: 678:Beverungen-Lindenstraße 1623:(in German) (90): 7–9. 1332:Magdeburg–Thale railway 1312:Prussian state railways 1679:"Scherfede–Holzminden" 1469: 1255: 1247: 1213:North Rhine-Westphalia 966:Nörde connecting curve 777:Dalhausen (Kr Höxter) 253:North Rhine-Westphalia 41:North Rhine-Westphalia 1735:Holzminden (district) 1466: 1253: 1246:, near track km 322.0 1238: 1685:on 17 September 2013 1288:Hamm–Warburg railway 1215:that connected the 168:Line from Kreiensen 1575:(PDF; 162 kB) 1470: 1372:Duchy of Brunswick 1274:(but only towards 1256: 1248: 894:Raiffeisen Eissen 505:Steinberg junction 217:Line to Altenbeken 1647:978-3-937189-56-7 1542:978-3-89494-139-0 1459:Current situation 1370:and Warburg. The 1326:-Ringelsheim and 1262:. 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Index

North Rhine-Westphalia
Track gauge
standard gauge
Legend
Line from Kreiensen
Holzminden
Line to Altenbeken
Lower Saxony
North Rhine-Westphalia
Lüchtringen
Fürstenberg
Weser
Boffzen
Weser
LS
NRW
Brunswick
Prussia
Solling Railway from Ottbergen
Solling Railway to Northeim
Beverungen
Bk
Eissen
Line from Hamm
Line to Warburg
Upper Ruhr Valley Railway from Warburg
Scherfede
Upper Ruhr Valley Railway to Hagen
Holzminden
Scherfede

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